San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-24
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horses In all the English fairs.
Cotton gin OF Dick Bosz, near Bird.
vile, burned Tuesday night.
A new cabinet without Boulanger ID
talked Of In France.
Debate on procedure rules In the com.
mons continues.
Corner stone Of new Canadian col.
lege laid at Rome.
Sir John Mcdonald scores n victory In
the Canadian elections.
Henry NJ. Stanley has arrived at Zsn-
zibar all sound and well.
Alabama will pay her governor 81 900
salary after January l. 1888.
The convention to nominate Resgsn's
9Th.
The Alsace-Loraine elections show a
decided hostility to the German govern
| ment.
Contrary. to general expectation, the
returns in the Canadian elections 80 far
favor the old Mcdonald ministry.
The German elections seem 10 have
stiffened the backbone of the English,
and continental money markets.
Cattle reports from Montana affirm
| that the losses have been exaggerated
In the press dispatches.
Reichstsg will probably meet about
10th. Herr Richter says the septenate
have majority.
Should Bismark's defeat In Alsace-Lo-
raine lead to severe measures there,
trouble may grow out OF 1t.
Randy Churchill Is about to return 10
his place as supporter OF the govern
ment.
Senate passes the vetoed pension bill
Of Thomas s. Hopkins, by a vote of IS
| to 6.
The Abyssinians are making prepare
tions for regular campaign against the
italians.
Mexico American residents celebrate
Washington's birthday by an open air
picnic.
The iron fever takes fresh hold at
| Enterprise, Miss, and lands are chang
ing hands rapidly.
New Orleans banks are pressing
claims against the general government,
in the state legislature.
Cabinet rumors In Washington are as
variable as the spring winds on the Po-
| tomac.
| The Cincinnati labor convention has
had Il whole basketball of apples OF dis
cord dumped into it.
The bicycle lantern parade at New
Orleans, last night, was the most charm
| ing parade Of the carnival.
The industrial labor conference at
| Cincinnati reports StreatOr OF Illinois,
for president, and gives yice-presi
dency to X. j. Sledge, OF Texas.
Jesse Douglass, an old man living near
| Alexander, this state, suicides in the ab-
sence Of his family. Debt and discOar-
agement the probable cause.
The young meas democratic club of
Brooklyn had their annual dinner on
the Dight Of the 22nd. Hill, of New
York, was the lion of the occasion.
The German elections were a decided
victory for the national liberals. The
supplementary elections will be held
March Sd.
Paris rejoices secretly but most heart
lily over Bismark's discontinue In AL
sace-Loraine. The government stopped
all demonstrations.
The interstate commerce bill does not
prohibit the railroads from making re-
duced rates to political and other gath
erings.
The committee Of National Alliance Is
In session at Waco. Arrangements were
made for organizing alliances In all the
cotton states.
State senate spent yesterday consider
ing the railroad commission bill. House
was similarly engaged during morning
hours.
The legislative committees at St.
Louis are investigating state manufac-
lures, and convict labor as affecting free
labor. Doors closed.
The elections In Germany return l76
septenists and l07 opposition. A new
election will be ordered In 50 districts.
Alsace Lorain is still hostile TO Bis
mark.
The trial OF mail carrier Gender con-
cludes at Dallas and John is under So
600 bonds. Detective Duncan for brib-
lug Condor, is on trial. The case is
| mixed.
Secretary Bsyard lie notified OF the ar
rest OF an American citizen in Germany
| and his CONSUMPTION into the army,
where he has been compelled to do duty
since 1885.
The Indiana supreme court decides
that 1t has no jurisdiction In the con-
testant lieutenant-governor injunction
suit. This leaves the decision with the
assembly.
The testimony of Washington does
not show that the murdered Devices
Bolton was masked or in any way con-
cealing his identity when shot. There
was no reward offered for the perpetra-
tors OF the outrages.
Hewitt's letter before the democratic
club dinner at Brooklyn was not read,
Gov. Hill saying that he would not at
tend Ii 1t was. The letter condemned
without naming certain democrats who
had psndered to the labor vote.
Nice has experienced two severe earth
quake shocks, and all Southern Europe
| trembled. At Genoa, Pavis, Lucca and
other places the damage was slight, but
at Savona great damage was done to
property and eight persons were killed.
The tobacco workers and cigar makers
| ofNewark, who belong TO the knights OF
Labor, refuse to obey the order Issued
last October requiring all Knights OF
Labor who belong to the international
Cigar Makers Union to withdraw from
that body.
Senate completes Its consideration OF
the bill to create the department OF ag-
rioulture and labor and asks a CONFER
| ence. The bill creates an executive de-
| partment to have secretary and assist
ant appointed by the president with ad.
| vice and consent Of senate, salaries same
as In other departments, and transfers
the weather bureau OF the signal service
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